Personally, I found the remake weaker than the original (which was only vaguely interesting anyway; then again, it's pretty much the same movie).
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04/02/05
Psycho (1998)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:23
Rotten:46
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Van Sant's pointless remake neither improves or illuminates Hitchcock's original.
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A remake of director Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller about a young woman, who, while on the run after stealing $40,000 from her boss, is brutally murdered in the shower of a motel she is staying... [More]
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore
Director: Gus Van Sant
Reviews for Psycho
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06/18/02
Top CriticVince Vaughan looks like a killer from the moment we see him, and his silly, hyper-mannered performance doesn't help much.
01/01/00
Top CriticAlready my mother and I mourn the day when some AVID editor will dare to digitally tweak Vertigo, spinning it into a virtual romantic comedy starring computer-directed replicas of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
08/21/09
Contains nothing to outrage or offend partisans of the original, yet neither does it stand to add much to their appreciation.
03/26/09
Top Critic...the Hitchcock film relied for its effects on originality and creativity. Van Sant's remake substitutes rote repetition and cliches that have long since lost their value.
09/16/08
Psycho doesn't do much for Van Sant, and he doesn't do much for Psycho.
09/22/07
Vaughn's Norman Bates is much inferior because he lacks the natural neurosis of Anthony Perkins.
08/13/07
Deserves closer consideration than it received.
05/26/06
Hitchcock probably wouldn't tell this story if he was making films today, and he certainly wouldn't tell it this way, with internal 'voices', back projection, minimal nudity and violence.
02/09/06
The movie doesn't stink. The performances are good, potentially great, especially Vince Vaughn as Norman Bates, but he owns a scene just for doing that psychotic giggle of his.
12/06/05
A lot of people may not get the point of recreating a work such as Psycho. I didn't get it, until I saw the film.
04/09/05
To my absolute astonishment, I enjoyed the remake more than the original.
01/09/04
franky it sucks
01/07/04
Gus Vant Sant has remade Alfred Hitchcock's classic slasher film with so much reverence and so little originality that it is not clear what the point is.
05/20/03
It's surprising to note that this film, mostly well-acted, is somewhat lacking on the technical side, which is what Hollywood usually does best these days.
02/08/03
A Psycho that functions perfectly on its own terms while polishing this jewel of a thriller into its own bright new gleam.
01/10/03
Predictably, it's (almost) the exact same film, but I wouldn't say that it's a pointless enterprise.
09/10/02
No review available.
07/12/02
It's not so much that this movie didn't need to be made. The real tragedy is that a group of enormously talented people wasted several months of their lives when together they could have done something fresh and exciting and original.
06/05/02
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